👋Welcome to the Barcelona Network of Political Science. ▶️We are here to promote research, strengthen ties between institutions, and support young researchers and students in developing their research careers.

For my course on Conflict and Representation in the EU, I made an interactive Shiny app that plots CHES party positions, for all countries, years (1999-2024) and (most) dimensions in the dataset. Enjoy! dimiter.shinyapps.io/ches/ #polsci #Polisky #EUsky #Comparativesky #polbehaviorsky

I’m very happy and honored to receive the National Research Award for Young Researchers in Social Sciences. Many thanks to everyone who has supported me along the way

📢 Call open! We are hiring a Postdoctoral Researcher for the EU-funded project TaCT-FoRSED, which studies how conspiracy theories affect democratic attitudes. ℹ️ Info: tauler.seu-e.cat/detall?idEns... 🔗 Application: seleccio.uab.cat/seleccio/log...

From the research group @dec-gr.bsky.social, we are glad to share our new Scientific Data article presenting the release of the first 12 waves of the Spanish Political Attitudes Panel (POLAT). rdcu.be/eIkms

🧲 We are hiring! ✨ PhD position to join @dec-gr.bsky.social 🏁 4-year FPI contract 🎓 Pol Sci / Social Sci background + Master’s + English 📧 Send expression of interest with CV and motivation letter to [email protected] 🔗 tinyurl.com/yc3epmv2

📘 64.4 📊 Citizens strongly resist trading off free elections for income, but show more willingness to compromise on other liberal norms according to @sergiferrer.bsky.social @ehernandez.bsky.social @enprava.bsky.social @damjantomic.bsky.social 🔗 buff.ly/2uIi1YT

Here, @aarslew.bsky.social and I use the well-demonstrated fact that, in issues where people have incentives to withhold socially undesirable behaviours or opinions, the absence of an interviewer facilitates their expression. (4) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

‼️Our new paper with magnificent colleagues @alinazumbrunn.bsky.social @antonialang.bsky.social‬ on how place experience shapes place-based (rural/urban) identity is now out at the Journal of Rural Studies! 👇 (1/5)

@deeesharp.bsky.social & I are looking for a collaborator on a project w/ @offenegesellschaft.bsky.social on empathy-based interventions against affective polarization @uni-hamburg.de j0b.de/veca 75% PhD position, 1st yr project funded & can be converted to a position w/ teaching afterwards 📆31/08

I am looking for a PhD student in Comparative Politics @powimz.bsky.social. My research focuses on political (in-)equality, representation, and responsiveness. I would be grateful if you could help to spread the word. stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de#/jgu/job/49637

EPSA have announced that they will hold a conference in July 2026. 😵‍💫 We understand that there might be some confusion about EPSS and EPSA. 👉🏽 So we thought we would clarify some things. A short 🧵

Very happy to see this one published at @psrm.bsky.social! This is joint work with @jordimunoz.bsky.social, Andreu Arenas, and Albert Falcó-Gimeno.

New article out in World Politcs. We analyze how different groups react to varying programs of social democratic parties. We find less trade-offs than often assumed. Generally, more left-progressive programs increase support among social democratic potentials muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

📢 Publication alert: Our paper "Unpacking the rural–urban divide: Identities and stereotypes" - with @tonirodon.bsky.social, @griambau.bsky.social, ‬ and Andreu Rodilla - is now out in @electoralstudies.bsky.social.

📢 Our new paper on the rural/urban background of legislators in European national parliaments is now available in @electoralstudies.bsky.social ! 👇

🆕 EJPR NEWS 📰 Find us here on Bluesky 🦋 @ejprjournal.bsky.social for original, peer-reviewed research on comparative European politics. Stay informed, stay connected. #PoliticalScience #EJPR #PoliSky

Our Element is out! 🎉 Why do authoritarian-leaning leaders target women’s and LGBTQ+ rights? Is there a systematic pattern that reaches beyond individual country cases, and how is this reflected in people’s attitudes and societal norms? www.cambridge.org/core/element...

“Results show that rural areas tend to be underrepresented in national parliaments when compared to urban ones”

New paper @electoralstudies.bsky.social With @gricoc.bsky.social and @rgarciadelhorno.bsky.social we study the presence of legislators with urban and rural backgrounds in national parliaments www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧵

New WP w/ @riazsascha.bsky.social: via >42 million placebo tests, we show type I error inflation in Unexpected Event during Survey Designs (UESD), propose an adjustment, implement via new R package uesdRobust, and demonstrate utility by replicating two top UESD studies. osf.io/preprints/os... 1/9

🚨 Call for papers 📢 VIII Jornada de Comportament i Opinió Pública de Catalunya / 8th Catalan Political Behavior & Public Opinion Workshop 📅 6 de novembre de 2025 / November 6, 2025 at @IBEI 📩 Deadline: 4 de juliol / July 4. Submission: 🔗 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 👇

🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨 We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community. 🔗 epssnet.org Here’s a thread with everything you need to know. 🧵

🚀 New study (OPEN ACESS) out now in Political Science Research & Methods! @psrm.bsky.social Does the Growth of Religious Minorities Transform Electoral Politics? Evidence from the Evangelical Boom in Brazil www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I am very glad to see this paper with Albert Falcó and @jordimunoz.bsky.social published in @psrm.bsky.social. We use a multiple-UESD design to investigate the effect of terrorist attacks on voting 👇

🧵 Hiring 2 PhDs in political science! Join my ERC project DEMO-LIES @uantwerpen.be 🇧🇪 We study how politicians accuse each other of lying/disinfo — and how citizens react: Does it erode trust? Polarize? Mobilize? 🧠🗳️ 💥 4-yr fully funded 📅 Start: Oct/Nov 2025 🗓️ Deadline: 21 Aug Details + apply 👇

🚨 Excited to see my first solo-authored paper now published in IJPOR! 🚨 Do election outcomes affect participation in post-election surveys? And specifically, do election winners respond more than losers? The short answer: not really. The slightly longer answer: 🧵👇 academic.oup.com/ijpor/articl...

💥 Happy to share this new paper with Koen Verhoest in Public Management Review @pmreview.bsky.social ! What conditions contribute to building trust in services with high levels of opacity, information asymmetries, and vulnerable users? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Today, we concluded our two-day workshop on Political Behaviour and Public Opinion. Many thanks to all presenters and participants for the inspiring discussions and contributions!

I'm recruiting 2 PhD researchers to work with me on a project studying how social groups influence vote choices! Info on the position and how to apply 👉 www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo... Please share with interested students who would like to move to beautiful Leuven!

New preprint w/ @grahn.bsky.social & @joenoonan.se What happens when the world's most powerful democracy rolls back core liberal values? 🇺🇸 In this paper, we show how US liberal retrenchment, especially on women’s rights & LGBTQ+ equality, damages US global standing. 📄 doi.org/10.31219/osf...

🚨 New article out at @polstudies.bsky.social! "A Longitudinal Study on the Dynamic Relationship Between Affective Polarization and Radical Right's Emergence: The Case of VOX in Spain", co-authored with @marianotorcal.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/0032...

Really glad to share our new paper out on @thejop.bsky.social. We find that school debating reduces vulnerability to #misinformation and #conspiracy theories kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/ws/portalfil...

Acabamos de publicar un estudio en @thejop.bsky.social usando perfiles tipo Tinder en 🇬🇧 y 🇪🇸 para analizar cómo las identidades políticas afectan a nuestras decisiones románticas. ¿El hallazgo? Los votantes del PP prefieren salir con alguien de Vox mucho antes que con alguien del PSOE. 👀

Next seminar 📢: Next Tuesday (13th May) @sandraleon.bsky.social will present "Disaster in a Distrustful Democracy: Public Reactions to the DANA crisis in Spain" co-authored with @amuitz.bsky.social 📍Sala de Juntes 🕐 13:00 Join us!

🚨 We're hiring! Join us at @LMU_Muenchen for the DFG-funded project "Democratic Persuasion: How to Make the Case for Democracy." Interested in making scholarly & societal impact? We’re looking for: 🔹 1 Postdoc (100%) 🔹 1 PhD researcher (70%) Starting: Oct 2025 | Apply by: July 8 More info ⬇️ (1/7)

Very interesting research, especially in the German context, where the far-right AfD was just (officially) designated as a right-wing extremist party. Likely that we will see a rekindling of the German debate on an AfD ban.

This is interesting and timely given the debate about prohibiting the AfD and today's classification of the party as "right-wing extremist" by the domestic intelligence agency.

Should democracies ban parties that threaten democracy? In the DEMOTRADEOFF project survey we asked people in 15 countries about this. A short 🧵 with some results Citizens are deeply divided about this issue Support for bans is highest in 🇮🇱 🇮🇹 🇪🇸 🇳🇱 🇵🇹 🇨🇭 🇩🇪 www.dw.com/en/germany-i...

Just in general the idea of re-imbursement is sooo outdated. Give employees a uni credit card. Just normal in Denmark and solves all kinds of troubles.

🚨3-Year Postdoc Position in Zurich @ipz.bsky.social ❓Political implications of labor market transformation Plenty of flexibility, no teaching obligations, great research environment in an highly livable city. Deadline: May 18, 2025. tinyurl.com/postdoczurich #polisky #poliscijobs #psjminfo

Happy to see our paper on the political incorporation of women finally out in @worldpolitics.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Among all the democratic principles, free elections are the principle that individuals value the most. Citizens are firmly committed to elections, as they are not willing to forgo this principle even when compensated with high increases in income ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Very happy to see this paper finally out. 🧵 Through a measure of willingness to pay we show: 1. Citizens value elections much more than other liberal principles (media freedom, checks and balances...), which are often eroded in backsliding processes. ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

🧵 THREAD: Can a short online intervention help defend democracy against partisan polarization? In our new study - just published in the @bjpols.bsky.social - my colleagues and I tested this question across 33 countries 🌍 with over 41,000 participants 🧑‍🤝‍🧑. Here’s what we found 👇

We're organizing another round of the Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology 🎉 summerschoolwpm.org Our super-cool speakers include msands.bsky.social @allisonwkoh.bsky.social @melinscribe.bsky.social @rebeccakittel.bsky.social @fabiennelind.bsky.social & @indiiigo.bsky.social 📆01/05

I AM HIRING 2 postdocs (5 years) in my @erc.europa.eu project "The Politics of the Latent Educational Cleavage" at @goetheuni.bsky.social @infer-frankfurt.bsky.social! German call: www.fb03.uni-frankfurt.de/170856927.pdf English call: www.goethe-university-frankfurt.de/170858269.pdf Please share

Who supports free speech, and how consistent is the support? Together with @suthank.bsky.social, I’ve conducted a survey of citizens in 33 countries for The Future of Free Speech. A lot of interesting findings (see 🧵 + link): futurefreespeech.org/wp-content/u...

⭐I am looking for 2 PhD candidates w/ focus on qualitative representation research in my ERC project INCONEX at University of Salzburg! On the project: sites.google.com/view/inconex... Applications due: 2 May 2025 Full ad: sites.google.com/view/inconex... #EUsky #poliscijobs #qualitativemethods

📢 Fully funded PhD opportunity at the University of Glasgow! Interested in the following questions? ❓How do national identities shape attitudes toward migration? 🌍 How does this relationship change over time and across countries? Apply before 21 April. Details here: tinyurl.com/3cxay963